Charges laid in deadly Granville Island collision
Cory Papp is facing several charges, including impaired driving and dangerous driving causing death, following a 2017 pedestrian accident on West Fourth Avenue that killed an elderly man and injured two teens.
Cory Papp charged following 2017 pedestrian accident that killed elderly man, injured 2 teens
A man is facing impaired driving and dangerous driving causing death charges following a fatal accident at the entrance to Granville Island in 2017.
On Sunday May 28, 2017, an elderly man and two teenaged boys were struck by a vehicle travelling west on Fourth Avenue at Anderson Street. They were crossing the intersection around 5:30 p.m. in a crosswalk when they were hit.
The elderly man, David Wong, later died in hospital.
In June, more than a year later, Cory Andrew Papp was charged with:
- Impaired driving causing bodily harm.
- Impaired driving causing death.
- Dangerous driving causing bodily harm.
- Dangerous driving causing death.
- Causing an accident resulting in bodily harm.
- And causing an accident resulting in death.
Papp, who was born in 1995, is expected in B.C. Provincial Court on August 16.
In 2009, a couple was killed at the same intersection in a hit and run.
In July 2016, an international student was killed on Granville Island after a SUV crashed into a store.